Digital literacy is more than just knowing how to turn on a computer and use social media. It is the ability to critically analyze digital information and create information using digital tools. This presentation offers some resources and links to tutorials, reports and websites that help individuals bridge the digital divide.

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Digital Literacy and Communicating
across the Digital Divide

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What is digital literacy?
The ability to locate, organize, understand,
evaluate, and analyze information using digital
technology. (wikipedia)
For communicators, it is also the ability to use
this digital technology to communicate
effectively to a specific audience a specific
message. That’s how we communicate across
the digital divide.
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Recent research reports
• Knight Commission Report, 2009
Informing Communities: Sustaining Democracy in the Digit
• The Aspen Institute White Paper, 2010
Digital and Media Literacy: A Plan of Action
• American Association for Agricultural Education
National Research Agenda for 2011-2015
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Programs have been created…
• www.digitalliteracy.gov
• www.digitalliteracycorps.org/DLC-P4,html
• www.library.illinois.edu/diglit
• www.digiliteracy.org
• http://www.knightfoundation.org/publications/detroit-broadb
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Curriculum has changed…
• http://mejohnso.myweb.uga.edu/diglit.html
• http://newhouse.syr.edu/Academics/Broadcast_Digital_Jou
• Journalism 2.0 from the Knight Foundation
• http://www.knightdigitalmediacenter.org/multimedia_trainin
• http://multimedia.journalism.berkeley.edu/
• http://www.ojr.org/ojr/wiki/
• http://www.newsu.org/
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Why is this happening?
MySpace began…2003
Facebook began….2004
Twitter began…2006
YouTube began…2005
How are these companies relevant to the
discussion?
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Where do we go from here?
How is this going to change your education?
How is this going to change your work?
How is this going to change your world?
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Dr. Kay L. Colley, ’91
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